Aresthanas

Role: goatherd · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 26

Life events

• Aresthanas discovered the exposed child but withdrew after seeing lightning shine from him.(Book 2 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Titthion)
  • With: Æsculapius
  • “when he saw the child desired to take him away, but when he got near saw lightning shining from the child”

Book 2 · Chapter 26

• with Æsculapius (interaction) “And Aresthanas, for that was the name of the goat-herd, when he found the number of the goats not tallying and that the dog was also absent from the flock, went in search everywhere, and when he saw the child desired to take him away, but when he got near saw lightning shining from the child, and thinking there was something divine in all this, as indeed there was, he turned away.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.